This makes me really miss Ed and I never even met him in person. We exchanged a lot of emails and UT messages over the past year and many were on GDI printers and WSH and API. I actually asked him to do a FAQ on GDI printers in email and he didn't even hesitate. He had it done within days. Such a great person...

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He responded via private message that he would try to get to it and it was almost immediately that he posted it.

>>Hi again Nadya, since I see this issue in this thread too, I'll post it here. Another issue that I should've mentioned in my other thread is that as you know, GDI printers will not accept printer control codes, so while using ??? may work with your current printers, there is always the possibility that someone will get a host-based GDI printer in the future and the reports will no longer print at all. You will only receive error lights on the printer itself or the reports goes to la la land. I have run into this this year as some of our customers started purchasing systems that included low-end GDI printers so all of our reports are slowly migrating to VFP frx reports...
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>Thanks again, Tracy. Ed Rauh has a FAQ here on GDI printers. Thanks for the word of caution.
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>To be completely honest, I started all these inquiries because I saw a post in another forum with this problem, which seems to be quite interesting. The person, who asked that question, never responded, so I don't know, if this information was helpful to him or not. But it certainly was helpful for me and hopefully for few lurkers as well.
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>Thanks again.